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HIGH HOLBORN GAS EXPLOSIONS.
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY SUBMITS REPORT. -
WORKMAN TO BLAME.
London, Apr. b. The gas explosion havoc in High Holborn just before Christina is recalled to-day by the issue of a report by the Commission of
AUXIT SATURDAY, APRIL 6. · 1929. 日七廿月二
SOVEREIGNTY OF POLAR LANDS.
CONTROVERSY STORY INCORRECT.
WASHINGTON AND LONDON BOTH DENY.
SOUTHERN CROSS" MERCHANT NAVY
STILL MISSING.
SIX DAYS' SEARCH REVEALS NO TRACE.
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EFFORTS CONTINUING.
Sydney, Apr. 6. Grave apprehension fa now felt regarding the loss of the famous trans-Pacific aeroplane "Southern
STRAGGLERS DISARMED Serretary to investigate the affair.
inquiry appointed by the Home TRUTH OF THE MATTER Cross" which has now been miss-
Hanko, Apr. 5.
(11 p.m.) After the panic aroused by the collapse of the Wuhan defence Hines Hankow to-day is remark ably pleaceful. The major portion of the Wuhan troops are retreating directly to Taaftien und are muk- ing for Tuna..
Only a few hundred stragglera arrived in Jankow and these were promptly disarmed by Mr. Kung
The opinion is expressed that the explosions were probably due to the gradual accumulation of gas leaking slowly, from neighbouring mains, becoming lentted in a man- hole by some action on the part of one of three Post Office work men.,
The man probably responsible was Mr. Percy Thrower (who was killed) Id using a petrol Hghter. le died eight days after the explo
on the result of injuries
received.
At the inquent recently, Mr. Ingleby Oddie, Coroner, said he was reduced to Westminster the theory that Thrower when in the dark duet was fumbling about
ing in the wilds of West Australia for six days.
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PRAISED.
FINE TRIBUTE BY THE PRINCE OF WALES.
HOW WAR HAZARDS WERE OVERCOME.
A GLORIOUS RECORD.
London, Apr. 5. H.R.H, the Prince of Wales, who board, including Captain Kingais Master of the Merchant Navy of the Atlantic that a diplomatic ford Smith and Mr. Ulm, the and Fishing Fleets, has written a
Landbu, Apr. 6. The greatest interest has been aroused by the suggestions appear- ing in the newspapers on both sides
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One way of reaching the dia. Referring to the policy of the tressed mining areas is vin "The LLP., the Daily Press states:- Dover Road.".
"The Chairman, Mr. Maxton, and Mr. Truce patched up the differ- Says 'a news, item, "The hardest onces last December," Wo undor. blow suffered by the whale indus- stand that the matter is now in try has been, of course, the dis- the hands of Mr. Party and
appearance of the corset. Busta General Election, the whole business, in factf
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If we could only give thanks
Instead of tanks.
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The Bateman cartoon is yet to
ba drawn depicting the distrosE occanloned in the Trafo Depart meat on receipt of the news that the beacon went on the blink.
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"A telephone operator is born, not made" anys the Daily Press. This is the soundest argument we. Some of these bus-drivers have have yet heard in favour of birth
as much nerva control!
as an artificial tooth,
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murder.
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controversy between Great Britain Pacific Alers, a navigator and a foreword to the third and final "Radio is killing Jazz," says a To acquiro a low brighter, and and the United States has developed wireless operator, Mystery sur-
volume of Sir Archibald Hurd's writer. It ofton does sound like stickier awear words, use one of over jurisdiction in the Antarctic rounds the whole affair as region, as the result of Commander Wireless message was received work, The Merchant Navy." In
these now cigarette lighters. Byrd's expedition.
from Captain Kingsford Smith this the Prince pays a magnificient.
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It in suggested that China has Wyndham. No further message Mercantile Marine during the
forced descent near tribute to the part played by the road-menders, they have plenty of
chance to rise from the bottom. enso more been thrown into the melting pot. These generala are ☐ ☐ of any kind has come through, War.
The Home Government seems certainly in a terrible stow, though It was understood that none of the occupants had been
rather concerned about the coming
burt.
bye-bye elections.
As a matter of fact, the position has been greatly over-stated and, at could by any manner of means be present, there is nothing which regarded as a controversy.
Press "Rensong,"
1.
A great air-linor, the "Can
Ho says: "Let us
who are land-dwellers not
mince words over this thing. It is the glory of our Merchant Navy and will
A stray bat from the belfry- "How can one play a high jump
DO The sale of the Prince of Wales' record?"
American humour industry..
maintaining order until the Nan- for un electric plug and realising statements by urging the poten-berra," arrived at Broken Hill from be, so acclaimed by generation hunters was a bad blow to the
Ken, the ex-Commissioner for Civil Affairs in Hupeh,' who was responsible for the speedy r ganisation of the Peace Preser vation Corps, which is effectively
king forces formally take over that there was a danger of being control of the Wuhan cities,
gamed, and wanting to get the job The streets are gay with haut-done quickly, lit his lighter, ing in welcome to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, who is expected to reach Hankow st
one 'clock
in the morning-Reuter.
Admiral Chan Lands.
Shanghai, Mar. 5.
"That is the theory that decurs to me," added Mr. Oddie, "and seems to be the probable explana tion of the explosion. It is a sin- gular coincidence that a lighter was long afterwards found lying in the debris that had been thrown
Admiral Chan Shao-keen, Com-up from the subway," mander of the Nanking. Second Squadron, leading ten gunboats of the Squadron, arrived at Hankow this morning.
The newspapers support their tialities of the Anarctic for the extablishment of aviation bases, and auggesting that the existence of coal, mica and other mineral re- sources, coupled with the fact that practically all the world's supply of whales are to be found in the sur- rounding waters, are the principal factors.
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Authoritative circles in London The Commission of Inquiry re-to-day state that the British Gov- commends an immediate examina-rument is not aware of the im- tion of the whole of the Post ponding despatch of Once tube installation and the States Note to Britain, “ The official landing of the Nan-provision of an adequate system
of ventilation.—Reuter, king, naval chief was
made
at
noon to-day and he was welcomed
by large crowds of prople.
A circular comforting the people, and assuring them of peace | and that no looting would occur was issued.
A Chinese journal in Hankow, the Chung Shan (daily news-
paper), according to Chinese sources, was suspended by order of Nanking officials this morning. All the Chinese newspapers have now ceased their attack on the Central Government, and in their lending articles there, is a marked change of tone in favour of Mar- shul Chiang Kai-shok.
TASMANIA FLOOD
DISASTER.
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If the U.S. Government has any Intention, it Ja declared, Note
only an earlier communication, from Great Britain to the United States offering to grant all possible facilities to Commander Byrd when exploring in the neighbour-
SERIOUS DAMAGE REPORTED hood of British Antarctic posses-
IN ALL PARTS.
CAPITAL ISOLATED.
Hobart, Apr. 3. Great damage has been done by anprecedented floods experienced in all parts of Tasmania,
alons,
It is pointed out that the British Government have always claimed jurisdiction over certain areas in the Ross Sea and the Islands dependencies.
Falkland
"I'M ALONE" SINKING OUTRAGE.
Canada Sends Nnte of Protest to Washington.
REPARATION SUGGESTED,
Ottawa, Apr. 5. - The Canadian Government has forwarded to the Canadian- Minister in Washington for presentation, to the US. State Department, a long Note pro- testing against the sinking of the Canadian schooner "I'm Alone,
The Note suggests that the United Statea should make re paration and asks" for clarifica- tion of the United States' at- titude towards the right of "hot pursuit under similar circum- stances."—Neuter's American
Service.
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There is no truth in the story. hesitation tremendous odds and bo come that they faced without
that members of the Hongkong butterflies Automobile Association A scientist says
intend frequent hazard of death,
unrecognise each other at a distance raising a subscription for the daunted in spirit, to the bitter of eight feet. That's one up on driver who 80 successfully end. Let us not forget also that the Peakites.
removed the traffle beacon. had it been otherwise, this coun-
☐ ☐ try of ours must have perished."
According to
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Talking about
Easter some of these flappers
New Hazards and Perils. The Prince recalls that in the don't care '80 frat stage of the war, the British much for ። scaman recognised that nothing bright future as more was being naked of him than
for to accept the usual hazards of naval conflict. With the arrival
present. on the scene of the submarine,
If you ever and the indiscriminate use of mines, the whole position for the get down
your knees use merchant seaman was changed.
hubby's safety
he
razor.
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He found himself faced by hazarda and perils such ан had never before expert.
If the water enced, or Indeed had ever conceived អ possible. With supply gets the Intensification of the enemy'a much lower, campaign, the British sailor saw some of us may himself directly involved in the be robbed of whole frightful mechanism of war, our bath-rite. whose grim operation reached its elimax in the phase of unrestrict- ed submarine attack,
Mistress (engaging, new maid): I had to dismitas mu last maid because she wore my dresacs when I was ill in bed. I hone you will not do that.-;
New Maid May I see your wardrobe ma'am?
a scientist, the earth's crust Ia 2,000 mlies thick. This should reassure *Boma of
Fanling golfers.
our
-The difference between a cook and a chef la mainly a matter of hat.
This dearer patrol move- ment at Home
looks like put- ting the gall in gallon.. ☐ ☐ Some jackeys were merely acen
The Government radio station' recently failed to record the at the Easter Race Meeting screams of a seagull. This is another was Heard. believed to be the first instance
of professional disappointment ut missing the bird.
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"Jack" The famous quotation you refer to la,"you may fire after
you remove, that wart, Gridley."
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Washington Surprised.
The Auxilary Patrol, "A similar attitude is taken in Troops Enter City.
Bridges have been washed away, Washingtori official circles. A
Special mention is made of the Auxiliary Patrol, which in. Its General Liu Chi, Commander and telegraphs and telephones message from the United States
complete development was manned of the First Nanking Division, destroyed everywhere, thus received to-day says that the
Garden Note:-The ties and | by nearly 50,000 officera and men. arrived st Hankow the seriously interfering with com-State Department is most surpris-
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Describing it as one of the cigars you received last Christmas
The Government has decided to morning, while in the afternoon munications.
ed by the reports in the British General Chiang Ting-min, Com- The town of Hobart, the capi-Press that the United States in Sydney to-day with medical stores most striking and certainly on may now be planted out with put a microphone at. Shok-D
Bury a foot deep and during rush hours. mander of the 9th Nanking Divi- tal, is laolated from the rest of preparing t Note contesting and provisions for the missing of the most successful of the safety.. sion, with 2,000 troops arrived on Tasmania, except by means of British claims in the Antarctic. airmen, while another aeroplane many pieces of war-time Improvl- cover with stones.
We Have the electric eye and The State Department officials for the wreck.
spent a fruitless day in searching sation which history will place to Fourteen people were drowned
Divorces may be bothersome and electric ear, the British nation, the Prince
Now why doesn't when a dan burst at the Brisels ridicule the suggestion that a
The Rellef Committee which has observes:"Here was indeed af all that, but just think of the some saviour of the race come for- ward with an electric foot, to bear tip mine, in the township of Derby.diplomatic controversy has arisen een organised has come to the medley of small vessels-trawlera | number of male lives they gave.
fresh from our fishing grounds,
down on the Instep of the lady conclusion that the "Southern drifters, whalera, paddle steamers ago, the British Embassy forward afty miles of Drysdale, which sionists, yachts, motor launches have also discovered a new lethal just after you have bid one No A combined saxophone and bag- bridge partner who wants to tell It appears that several months Class" must have landed within a familiar to Channel excur pipe has been invented. Scientists everybody all about a cinema show od to the State Department a Note town the machine was seen to fly and motor boats. Their hazar gas. permitting Commander Byrd to over
the ss. Kong Sin. It is under-wireless. stood that General Hsia To-yan has also arrived in the City.
Hanyang Situation.
It is reported that the troops of
Generals Yeh Chi and Hain Wel are concentrated at Hangyang. but it is alleged they are leader- leas and that both commanders deserted the Army immediately after the full of Rankow, It is possible that these troops will be absorbed into the Nanking Army. Hanyang is quiet at present.
A motor-ear was overwhelmed or is likely to arise, by floods on the north-west coast,
and its five occupants were all
drowned.-Reuter,
THE KING STILL PROGRESSING.
BAD WEATHER INTERFERES WITH ROUTINE.
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the
dous duties were as varied as their types.
One Heart and Spirit.
use British territory in the An- morning of March 31st-Reuter.
aretic, pointing out that Britain had sovereignty over certain lands in that region.
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No Action? The State Department says that it has not yet replied to that Note and that there has been no in-
After the capture of Hankow, the tense altuation on the Yang- taze relaxed considerably and
London, Apr. D. tropp movements on the Tientsin Pukow Railway have stopped. II.M. the Kink pasace another dication that any action in this connexion is contemplated, t Through passenger and freight good day.
least, at the present time.--Reuter. traffics on this line resumed to Majesty spent less than an hour in Owing to bad weather, His
The reports at which the State normal this morning.
the gardens. He sat on the lawn Department has expressed aur protected from the wind by screens | prise also appear in the American for some little while, and after- newspapers. wards walked for about twenty minutes.-British Wireless.
'Hunan's New Ruler,,
The officer commanding the Kunań troops, General Ho Chien, who remained neutral during the the war, has been formally installed as Commander of the 4th Nanking. Army and Superintendent of Troop Dlabandment In Human. The two new portfolios were recently an nounced in Nanking and accepted, Heavy Rains.
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"TRANSVAAL TRAGEDY
SEQUEL.
SENTENCE ON WHITE FARMER.
Capetown, Apr. 6. vaal) Circuit Court of ten lashes A sentence by the Bethel (Trans and seven years' hard labour on a white furmer, named Jack Nafte; found guilty of the manslaughter of a native employee, has caused a sensation amongst farmers all The Herald-Tribune states that all over the country. Britain has, diplomattenlly drawn It is alleged that the native was attention to the fact that Commant flogged, severely, tied by a leg to m der Byrd's recent explorations tree head downwards, and died from were made over, British territory.shock as a result of the injuries, The British notd virtually claimed which included broken ribs sovereignty over the entire South breastbone............. PARIS. TO SAIGON IN 'ELEVEN Polar region, part of which is al-
General Hertzog has ordered a DAYS.
rendy administored by the Governor postponement of the lashes pending General of Australia.
Investigation.-Router.
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"In their long hours of patrol, Joseph Conrad's "The Rescue." We'll learn all their names in timo,
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A New York bookshop adver- lised that a Alm star would be on Ings, a "General Upset in feared According to newspaper head- hand to autograph copies of
оп the North-West Frontier, Why not boost they watched the foe and hunted That's an idea. German submarines, searched for sales of the Bible a lttle by having and dragged mines, fought hostile Clara Bow sign coples?
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ing?" -asks contemporary. aircraft, controlled and examined "Is Billiards Too Easy!” asks a Judging by the sale of Frigidaire millions of tons of shipping Singapore newspaper. They am. and Kelvinator sets, the answer navigating the narrow seas, and,
would appear to be in the affirma- in many other ways, aplendidly
Prohibition agents failed to land tivé. Fleet. Varied indeed these craft Beconded the efforts of the Grand a Fish in New York Harbour on were in type, but the crews were
Tuesday.
animated by one heart and one spirit"-British Wirclean.
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This weather is awful. A Kowloon mosquito, was seen last record. That's capital week-end undergoing a screen test,
A doctor says tall women are ១ ជ Lots of doctors do things on the usually the most gloomy in dig side chiefly appendix operations. Pasition. A short wife, but a gay
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... "J.C."We don't pay for chest. nuta, so the pot of gold is not at, . "With the approach of warm MEXICAN REBELS TO BE
the end of your brainbow,
weather, dobating evenings WARNED.
at St. Peter's Club House have Shanghai sporting news:-Jacob been discontinued," states a con- Washington, Apr. 5. At the request of Mr. Henry Finkelstein refereed the football temporary. Yes, the winter in
match between the Siccawei best for heated arguments! Stimson, the Secetary of Stato, the
the Wayside Navy Department is sending a Soccers and
Mr. Stuyvesant Fish alleges that destroyer to the port of Topolobam- Wanderers. po. in order to protect Americans private life, was an insurance men he and his family were covered and other foreigners in the State of and would have been 23 years of with pistols while "dry" agents sourched his yacht in New York Sinaloa who are endangered by the age in October.
Harbour, Bet he thought he retreat of Mexican revels in that
Great words of little wives: might be bloatár, pleces i region."
As a result of the continued "Wipe. that asinine grin off your dropping of bombs from rebel face and please explain where you aeroplanes on the American town have been Rome, Apr. 5. ed to a realisation of the aerial im-
of Naco, in Arizona, Mr. Stimson The death has occurred of Car-portance of the Polar mountain It is learned by cable from has requested the Secretary of War are already' clear of the town dinal Gasquet. There are now caps, offering the shortest routes Shanghai that Mr. R. K-Butler, to war the insurgent leaders on "red thate."--between the land masses on either who is ́ill with amali-pox, is now the matter Router's American
Bide-Reuter's American Service. practically out of danger..
Service,
Hankow, Apr, Two China Merchant Steam Na vigation Company's steamers, with Nanking troops on board, arrived today, the men being landed. There was little demonstration, and only a small crowd collected. This was probably due to the heavy rains which have undoubtedly helped to preserve order.
No further trouble is expected. The great part of the Wuhan troops other than those who have доле
Nanking, over, to
and are going westwards Hunane Naval Wireless.
Paris, Apr. 6. The French, airmen Bailly and Reginensi have arrived at Saigon, on their fight from Paris.
They did the trip in eleven days. -Reuter,
CARDINAL'S DEATHL
into twelve
Reuter.
Vacant
FAIR TO FOGGY,
State Department has prepared a The newspaper asserts that the note disputing the British claims, Hughes, the State Secretary, in It is pointed out that Mr. 1924, expressed reluctance to as- The local weather forecast ja sert the United States' right to sued by the Royal Observatory sovereignty over Wilkes Land, states:-East winds, moderate;
The State Department's recent fair, probably some fog. reversal of this attitude is ascrib
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"Bruiser:"You may think. what you like about some of our was some amount of kidding. boxers, but we can't allow you to cast asparagus on the noble caul!- flower industry, W
Now, Captain Randell, cart: 0 Jonger declare "I'm alone!!